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Title Author Year
Mother’s Day David Young 2011
A Meadow Lucie Brock-Broido 2011
Shaving Your Father’s Face Michael Dickman 2010
Hey You Adrian Blevins 2010
Spring in New Hampshire Claude McKay 1920
The Passionate Freudian to His Love Dorothy Parker 1996
Lying My Head Off Cate Marvin 2007
Winter Sleep Edith Matilda Thomas 1896
First Turn to Me ... Bernadette Mayer 1968
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
Farewell John Clare 1920
Ode on Dictionaries Barbara Hamby 2009
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
Purgatorio, Canto X Dante Alighieri 1867
Reasons To Survive November (audio only) Tony Hoagland 2006
Exquisite Politics Denise Duhamel 1997
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) William Shakespeare 1609
Losing Track Denise Levertov 1964
Portrait in Georgia Jean Toomer 1923
Working Late Louis Simpson 1988

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